Morning Reads for Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Happy Birthday to the first rapid transit subway (the IRT in NYC 1904), Silvia Plath (1932), Philadelphia, and Teddy Roosevelt (1858). It’s also the date of the first Federalist Paper, the speech that launched Ronald Reagan’s political career, and when, after too many margaritas, the United States annexed West Florida. Nevertheless, on to the reads!

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Carson is leading by a bunch. How does someone effectively attack him without sounding like a prick? Inexpereince in things political? Because at this moment, there is nothing character wise to nail him on. Pass the popcorn.

Lets see…eliminate Medicare/Medicaid. Comparing everything to Nazi Germany. Would never increase the debt limit EVER and allow the US to default. This is Michele Bachmann crazy territory. Look under the hood and there is no “there” there. He wont be the nominee. He looks much more Herman Cain-ish to me. He has no grasp of what being President entails

Carson’s only qualifications are being self-made and accomplished (as if that’s pre-requisite for knowing what’s best for the nation), and an outsider. He’s a superlative brain surgeon, but I’m not sure I’d want him walking the dog on his own.

Carson words of wisdom….all stuff I think he said AFTER he became a candidate…

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed.””

“Guy comes in, put the gun in my ribs, and I just said, ‘I believe that you want the guy behind the counter. I redirected him.”

“You know Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”

“I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”[…]

In response to the question of whether being a gay is choice. “Absolutely. Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.”

LOL! No, it’s not me that needs the love!! I genuinely miss Harry’s comments!! Thanks anyway for offering to get under my skin for a response, though! I’m sure you or B will say something “librul” soon enough to raise my hackles!

What’s funny is if you talk to members of my family I can be a right wing hack and a “f”ing Liberal” all based on the same comment. Family gatherings over Christmas can be fun. Always love watching my survivalistic Libertarian “I can own a ‘nuke’ under the Second amendment” brother and my great uncle the Jesuit priest, who knew Dorothy Day personally and runs a food pantry, go at it.

Yawn. I will believe that progressives care about free speech on campus when they begin to criticize the very common practice of shouting down conservative speakers, disrupting their speeches, charging exhorbitant security fees for them that the campus organizations trying to bring them to campus often cannot afford, and canceling them when students claim that the speakers and their “offensive” views “create a hostile climate” and “make them feel threatened.”

As far as Gamergate goes, I will not defend members of that oft-odious community, but I will point out that the left very often does the same (online and in person) and their squealing smacks of being unable to take what they have been dishing out for many decades.

I didn’t perceive this as being a left-right issue, but since it deals with gun laws I can see why it might get some saliva going.

The interesting question to me is; Is Utah right, there should be NO restrictions under any circumstances? What about airports and airplanes? Why shouldn’t a state allow localities or organizations to make their own rules in this case?